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Starting this week, feel free to drop in during councillor open office hours: Councillor Sue Ellen Fast: Thursdays 1-4 p.m. Councillor Melanie Mason: Mondays 10 a.m - noon (excluding Mondays morning council meetings.

On Friday, January 30, Bowen Islanders will have an opportunity to learn more about the proposed Woodfibre Liquid Natural Gas processing and export plant just across Howe Sound, in Squamish.

Bowen Island Economic Development Committee chair Gordon Ganong told council that, while there’s no remedy for the Bowen creditors who are facing major losses because Wakefield Construction has filed for creditor protection, the committee hopes that

On or about Dec. 15, 2014 a deer was unlawfully killed and left to rot near ‘Mike’s Lorg trail’ off of Adams Road.

As of last week, people heading to Horseshoe Bay who’ve never heard of Bowen Island will know that that yet another island destination lies ahead – as Bowen Island was added to the highway sign listing the destinations of Gibsons and Nanaimo.

Bowen remains the only island within Islands Trust to not adopt Natural Area Protection Tax Exemption Program

The Executive Director of the Future of Howe Sound Society , Ruth Simons, came to Bowen on Monday to discuss the Howe Sound Community Forum and urge council to accept the invitation to host the Forum this coming April.

The Knick Knack Nook has tallied the donations made in 2014, and in terms of financial funds dispersed, the total exceeds more than $40,000.

1. BAA has the farming/agriculture history wrong: We got our info from a well-respected Bowen history book.

Sometime between the afternoon of Sunday January 18 and the following morning an unknown person took an Irish Terrier from the area of Arbutus Lane. The dog was found abandoned and uninjured in a dog crate in Stanley Park.